Peter ...
We do something similar to what Ken Hall mentions. Others have
implemented similar hacks, notably Mike Kershaw's tool. Ours is
just a shell script (attached), plus, you'd need to modify
/etc/inittab to have something like:
cons:12345:respawn:/sbin/suloginv console
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#!/bin/sh
#
#
# Date: 2000-Sep-16 (Sun)
#
#
#
# argument #1 can be a console filespec:
CONSOLE="$1"
if [ -z "$CONSOLE" ] ; then CONSOLE=/dev/console ; fi
if [ ! -c "$CONSOLE" -a -c "/dev/$CONSOLE" ] ; then
CONSOLE="/dev/$CONSOLE" ; fi
#
# set the prompt string:
PS1=`hostname`
#PS1="$PS1 # "
PS1="$PS1 \\\$ "
export PS1
#
# set the shell to something safe:
SHELL=/bin/sh
if [ -x /sbin/sh ] ; then SHELL=/sbin/sh ; fi
#
# add a couple important things to command search PATH var:
if [ -d /usr/bin/X11 ] ; then PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin/X11" ; fi
if [ -d /usr/local/bin ] ; then PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" ; fi
export PATH
#
# now run that shell:
exec $SHELL -i 0<$CONSOLE 1>$CONSOLE 2>$CONSOLE
